Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Very Rev. Hugh Richard Lawrie Sheppard, 56, Canon and Precentor of London's St. Paul's Cathedral. Lord Rector of Glasgow University, famed as Britain's "Broadcasting Parson"; of a heart attack; in London...
...Philadelphia. A well-trained boys' choir should study together, sing together every day, live together in as complete harmony as they sing. Last April Rev. Dr. John Mockridge, ruddy high-church rector of Philadelphia's patrician St. James's Episcopal Church, had 30 boy sopranos selected from 97 applicants in Philadelphia public schools, put them at his congregation's expense in the swank Episcopal Academy on City Line Avenue. Further weeding brought the group down to 20. Dr. Mockridge taught the boys the Episcopal service, had them attend his church in a body every Sunday during...
...Hyannis, Mass., Rev. Carl F. Schultz of the Federated Church listed six causes for empty church pews: Rest, Radio, Riding, Relatives, Roomers...
...South, that a textbook dare not use. To please North and South, publishers get out books on "evolution" but do not use that word, speak of "development." The Texas textbook committee once refused to approve a biography of Thomas A. Edison lest they be attacked by a Fundamentalist Baptist, Rev. J. Frank Norris, who hated and feared that atheist inventor. In Louisiana an Elson Reader was banned because of this Mother Goose couplet...
...first newspaper, the Michigan Essay and Impartial Observer. When Detroit burned to the ground in 1805, Father Richard's St. Anne's Church was gone and he set up in a tent, later building a new church and six schools beside. With a Presbyterian named Rev. John Monteith he founded in 1817 what is now the University of Michigan, the Presbyterian becoming president and holding seven professorships, the Catholic vice president with six professorships. In 1823 Father Richard was elected to the 18th Congress of the U. S. as third delegate from the Michigan territory. Four years later...